In comparison to the episodic format previously release just like December Sky I feel that having all 4 ONA episodes combined into one movie makes it easier and understand and consume. Unless it's either been a while and I forgot or if they actually did I noticed a few additional scenes but not too many.

Art and Animation (10/10) Masterpiece

The animation and art-style of Gundam Thunderbolt never disappoints unique, rough and classic hand-drawn full as always.

Sound (8/10) Very Good

Nothing has really changed this time around that wasn't in the
ONA episodes the sound still very good and I guess some of the BGM didn't bother me as much this time around as it somewhat did when I watched and reviewed the ONAs even though it's the same.

Characters (8/10) Very Good

The Characters Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower are very good quite easy to follow everyone's motives and characterization. Although the Claudia stuff did get a bit confusing nothing else really stood out as a big issue. None of the characters had any mind-blowing character development or characterization to make it any high than an 8/10.

Enjoyment (8/10) Very Good
More Specifically (8.50/10) Very Good+

I enjoyed watching Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower a bit more than I did watching the ONAs because like I said before it feels it's easier to consume one movie with out the pauses of binge watching four episodes or in my case when the ONAs were airing waiting monthly for them.

Overall (8/10) Very Good
More Specifically (8.40/10) Very Good

Not much is needed to be said about Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower, although I wish Io and Daryl confronted each other that's what made Season 1 aka December Sky so amazing which was their climatic rivalry but oh well and the last about 20 minutes of the movie was a bit of a challenge to follow but not too bad either way if you were wonder if you should watch the ONAs or this movie choose this movie it's better don't believe the score on this MAL page for either this or December Sky in comparison to it's ONAs.

The story of Devilman is quite straightforward at first. Main character gets the power of a powerful demon named Amon and with his friend takes out full demons bringing terror to humans. But the more you uncover beyond the synopsis especially with that borderline spoiler opening you soon find out that the main character and his friend have an extreme difference in the opinion of basically everything that's going on around them. The conflict reminds me of another series in a way you may have heard of it.. you know Berserk? Now I know technically Devilman predates
the story of Berserk with Devilman being the 70s while Berserk is late 80s hell Kentaro creator of Beserk himself stated that Devilman had to be his biggest inspiration for the creator of Berserk so I pay my respects to this franchise and Go Nagai. You can easily see the many similarities, although from a story standpoint both are good you can tell Kentaro learn a thing or too. Either way I don't want to turn this into a comparison post. The story for Devilman is good.

Art and Animation (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.50/10) Good

Animation more so throughout majority of the series was good but you can definitely see that the art style on the other hand more so than often couldn't hold up to a consistent quality of reason. More so than often I would see art style derps and question how much exactly did Netflix give this animation studio to release certain scenes like this without a bit of clean up? It took me out of the immersion as a found myself more so than often saying in the back of my head when one of these scenes occurred going "Eww why does the artstyle look like a 6 year ago drew this?" and I would have forgiven this if it didn't happen so frequent. Nonetheless this is probably my biggest and only issue when it comes to this section. It didn't stop me from watching the entire thing but you or should I say I couldn't sit here and say that it was very good to any degree. Animation was like I said though was fairly clean though.

Sound (9/10) Great

Now I want to say that this is my first time consuming anything Devilman related and I also want to say that I did watch it in English Dub on Netflix. I had no issue with the voice acting of the english dub everyone sounded fine and if there's anything that made this section great it had to be the background music especially the song that plays when Devilman debuts. Every time it played you know he was about to kick ass and it got me hyped.

Characters (8/10) Very Good

Many characters in Devilan Crybaby were very good. None that stood out were extremely amazing or super deep and I didn't think any character was particularly bad except for like one which I will get to in a bit. Majority characters had their reasons for doing what they did and it all made sense to a degree. But if there is one character that was just a bit confusing to follow to me it was Miko, you see here go through multiple character developments within the running of the series and although majority of the time character development can be seen as a good thing, I don't think character development is 100% of the time a good thing especially if it happens why too much and way too drastically to any character. At first I understood why the character was jealous and mad and that characterization on her made sense at first. But when the Demon War broke out and the characters starts to help the very person she hates with all of her heart, I just couldn't get behind that, was it because of the Demon War that changed her mind? Maybe.. but I personally didn't like or could get behind the change a character that ultimately ended up sacrificing herself over someone she showed so much hatred and jealously towards for basically the entire anime. I mean think about it what do you think that character Miko would have done when if her and Miki actually did officially race and she proved that she was faster? Once she proved that (just an assumption here) there's a high chance she would have felt empty inside still jealous at basically everything else she said in episode 9 she was jealous of Miki over. I wouldn't have been surprised if she would have ended up killing Miki over the amount of things her brain would have came up with to prove she was better that wasn't just running faster like I said she stated multiple things in episode 9. The way her character was ultimately handle I personally was not a fan of. Everyone else I didn't have too much of an issue with, I guess that little dreadlocked kid and the weirdo tall man that was with that rap scene crew in episode 9 their betrayal didn't make any sense but I guess since we didn't really have much time all you can consider that is nitpicking at this point... I guess

Enjoyment (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.75/10) Good+

Episode 1 was definitely the best episode and the anime was off to an amazing start but the more I watch the more it's flaws stopped me from bingeing the entire thing from start to finish and although I don't think that are big flaws (except those art style derps), I can't sit here and say that they didn't hinder my overall enjoyment. Nonetheless I still fairly enjoyment myself it was short and sweet but I wasn't a fan too much of that ending... ah well I heard many things were changed from the source material.

Overall (8/10) Very Good

Being the only thing Devilman I've watched or read I thought it was a very good anime although with a few short comings I still enjoyed myself a good amount with it. Especially after figuring out this if it wasn't for this franchise one of my favorite manga (Berserk) wouldn't exist how the way it is. Will I read or watch the past Devilman content? Don't know right now but I don't regret watching this one at all.

The story for Inuyashiki was obviously one of those stories from the get go (especially if you knew how many episodes the anime was scheduled for) was not going to explain a lot of conspiracies and mysteries of their universe. That being said the what the series decided to focus on was nonetheless compelling from the end of episode 2 to the end of the anime.
With the amount of episodes it had if it did try to explain all of our questions it would probably have felt rushed so even though I'm going to wish I knew the answers to my questions
for the betterment of pacing I can understand why it was not touched upon to it's full conclusion.

Art and Animation (8/10) Very Good

The art style for this anime is very good, but that's about as much as you can say about it. The CG portions were not horrendous but they did stand out like a zit on your force from time to time. Nonetheless I wasn't too bothered by the CG enough to have to say anything else bad about it beyond that and like I said the hand drawn art style is about 75% of the anime and it's really gorgeous so I'll give it it's props there.

Sound (9/10)

Inuyashiki didn't have too many sound effects or moments that blew my mind when it came to sound but you would have no taste in culture to even consider skipping that opening by Man with a Mission, the ending music was a soothing conclusion to what most of the time was an end of an episode left you saying to your self "geez that episode was lowkey stressful to watch.. at least the outro music can calm me down a bit." You can definitely feel the impact of the outro music also on the episode finale too. The voice acting was spot on for all character (JP VA) no one felt like that voice didn't fit them and the sound effects on the mechanical morphing of their bodies was pretty unique also.

Characters (8/10)

The characters in Inuyashiki were very good, majority of the ones that were focused on definitely got a decent amount of time to be fleshed out, understood and become relatable to some degree depending on how you are. The villain Hiro's personality on the other hand is kind of hard to grasp when it came to being realistic as far as the quick character change he had once he became a what he became. Other than that I barely had any issues with and of the characters and how they were introduced and handled for the 11 episodes that they had.

Enjoyment (9/10) Great

Episode 1 was the only episode that one could debate isn't that compelling which sucks because most of the time this could be considered one of the if not the most important episode of any anime as first impressions are important in getting a grasp on your audience. But by the end of episode 2 this anime exceeded what little expectations I had for it. I was there every thursday ready to "Hit me on the ground" and watch that week's episode and it did not disappoint for it's entire run.

Overall (8/10) Very Good

As much as I want to give it something more than just an 8.00/10. I want to stay as critical as possible for everything this anime brought to the table in 11 episodes. It's a very good anime but obviously not flawless to me in any one specific category. Nonetheless if you asked me while this was airing what you should be watching as far as anime I would have cut you off before you got the end of that sentence and said "Inuyashiki fuck everything else airing right now". I have not read or watch by the mangaka of this series but I intended to read Gantz in the future and heard it's quite a brutal series. I heard it's far more brutal than this is and if that's the case I can't wait but it was good advertising for Gantz since it was present a lot in this anime I liked that. Inuyashiki is a very good anime and you should watch it if you haven't but don't decide on dropping it until you reach the end of episode 2 if I had to tell you one thing.

XXJ expresses it's own twist on how the Legendary Journey to the West Tale occurred in it's story, the first thing that you most likely would say is "Oh here we go again another story about Sun Wu Kong and the Journey to the West.." but this isn't about the story to the Journey to the West though! This is a story that sure adapts what took place during that Journey but it's not the focus point as this story starts off with the famous Journey being a thing of the past. This is a story
about a NEW and unforeseen second Journey to the West because circumstances that I wouldn't say in this review (I'm sure you can read the synopsis on this page if you truly want to know). The main character is to undergo a new Journey to the West to overcome obstacles and save his important friend, I think it's a unique take on a story that has been done so many times and the first that I know of try to tell a story about what happens after that Journey (yes I know there's Dragonball and technically that's a spin off story of Journey to the West with Goku being Wu Kong but then we all know how Akira eventually went into galactic lore with that story), but yeah I was that person ready to be disappointed by this one just because I thought I knew where this story would be going and what it would be about the "Journey to the West" but little did I know... Anyway It's very good start so far and I'll leave it at that!

Art (10/10) Masterpiece

Come on now people.. really.. If you've read FSJ then you should know when it comes to nice colored art style you are in for a treat. Nothing more can and should be said about something everyone already knows..

Characters (8/10) Very Good

The characters so far are very good and interesting enough, as far as the first volume's worth of content is concern and the main roster they we are following they all have gotten somewhat of a backstory to this point and I'm invested enough in the 3 of them to see how this Journey plays out in their favor and future companions.

Enjoyment (9/10) Great

So far I'm greatly enjoying Xi Xing Ji, it has a interesting setup with lore we already are knowledgeable about (or I would assume you know the story about the Journey to the West by now come on..). The main characters are interesting enough and have a lot of space for growth and characterization for future chapters and I can't wait for the rest to be translated so I can read it and find out for myself.

Overall (8/10) Very Good
More Specifically (8.80/10) Very Good+

I've been trying to get this Manhua approved on this site for over a year now (thanks mods for being so cooperative...) anyway I'm glad it's finally up and more people can know about this series because I'm liking more and more every chapter and I hope it can live up to the hype that was the creator's previous work Feng Shen Ji.

Special thanks to Mugi for approving the Manhua page and Napok for letting me know of it's existence in the first place*

The story for Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt 2nd Season was good, it definitely explained what was going on in the struggles of war far better than it's manga counterpart during the sections that were covered. Although even with that being said the concept of the struggles of war were indeed present you can tell that it was definitely more laid back (at least until the last episode) than season one. This arc slowly but surely introduced the monks and their realization of newtypes but I did feel it did it take a bit
too long to address where all these monks came from and what their plans are even for 4 episodes. One thing Season 1 focus and portrayed were 1) The Struggles of war and what humans are willing to sacrifice to get their way and 2) Rivalry between not only the Zeon and The Earth Federation but Io and Daryl the two main character. This season 2 did still has confrontation between Zeon and the Earth Federation (as it should) but the paths that Io and Daryl have taken did not clash once (as far as I remember) this entire season and if it did and I can't remember (because you know we got one episode a month) it wasn't memorable. Anyway my point is if there's one thing that from a story standpoint that I feel Gundam does better than most anime is the rivalry story and how it plays out between the main character and antagonist, with that missing I can't sit here and say this from a story standpoint is superior or even on the same level as season 1 but it's still good nonetheless.

Art and Animation (10/10) Outstanding

This is one thing that Sunrise just can't go wrong with especially when it comes to this series the amount of detail in the art style and animation just looks so outstanding you pray that everything they do Gundam related brings this type of quality to the table, nothing bad in my opinion can be said about this section.

Sound (8/10) Very Good

The Sound effects and still very good and distinct but the BGM this time around was hit or miss for me. I feel (especially for the final episode) the whole happy go lucky music vibe that they were going for during grueling and painful scenes of death during battle felt just a tad out of place. I feel they were going for a happy/sadistic vibe of happy music during death scenes but like I said I don't feel it meshed too well although the actual music playing was good I felt it didn't really fit as well as the other BGM.

Characters (8/10) Very Good

The characters that were focus one were very good, not a lot of characterization or development that happened during these four episodes. It doesn't really hurt them as characters but as far as vast and noticeable improvements in comparison to season 1 nothing really is showcased. Now Io does have some what of characterization during the last few minutes of episode 7 and the entire episode 8 as he show how much he truly cares for Claudia, which is something that was borderline unclear in season 1 so credit there is given.

Enjoyment (8/10) Very Good

My enjoyment was very good for the majority of this season although I do definitely believe this pales in comparison to my enjoyment of season 1. Because like I said for me personally I get a unique high off of the quality rivalry that Gundam also presents in it's stories so when it's not present or not good my enjoyment takes a big hit. (It's probably why I didn't enjoy the MC of Ironblooded Orphan's Mikazuki he lacked a worthy rival). Nonetheless I still enjoyed it just not as much as season 1 and feel the same will be the case if this gets a season 3.

Overall (8/10) Very Good
More Specifically (8.25/10) Very Good

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt 2nd Season just like Season 1 blows it's manga adaptation out the water and proves that Gundam is far better watched than read, that can't be said about every series. The sound effects in Gundam battles is something that can't be missed and it's so unique. Although I feel this isn't as good as Season 1 this is still a very good season I feel that the pacing of Thunderbolt is going to stay at the pace that it's at if do get a season 3 which it would behoove them to make one, they can't leave this story like this plus that have enough manga content to adapt it so it's only a matter of time.

The arcs that Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger covered in the 26 episodes it was given were outstanding. I can see why it was named "New Challenger" because literally almost if not every fight had to do with a Challenger going up against a title holding Champion and one would think that it would get repetitive when this is said but every single fight lives up to the build up of the setup and background story around each match arc just was well as the 75 episode season 1.

Art and Animation (9/10) Great
More Specifically (9.75/10)
Great+

With the previous season I feel having a having a bit better animation quality than this one and that one being far older than this one and almost 50 episodes longer, I would have assume that this one would have had a better animation but sadly i did not feel it it. Although it was great I did not feel it was outstanding like season 1 same thing can be said about art style. By the time I got to the final big fight of New Challenger I decided to read the manga as I watched the fight side by side and I was right. Although this may have been the case with the previous season it didn't bother me to the point where I wanted to pull up the manga and experience the fights side by side. And at first I just wanted to make sure it was being adapted well and it was but then the scenes that did have a bit of weird animation or sub-par art style I did realize that the manga did trump the anime in majority of those scenes. And I'm talking about scenes where it is a stand still shot of a punch someone may have done to their opponent so no animation behind it i felt those certain scenes could have been handled to a bit higher quality of art style since no animation is behind it and sometimes it was but about 45% of the time it was not and like I said I was reading the manga side by side and sadly I felt it wasn't done 100% justice. Now I know it may be a super nitpick and this may have been the case for the previous season like I stated before but once again like I said I felt certain scenes in both the animation and art style department was of a lower quality that I am used to from both Hajime No Ippo's previous animated season and movies and the animation studio Mad House themselves. Nonetheless I still this it's great, just not outstanding like I'm used to.

Sound (10/10) Perfect

Everything that had sound in Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger was perfect. All voice acting, background music and sound effects during punches and blows were spot on and is the reason why manga readers will go back and watch the anime since they can't get this in the manga.

Characters (10/10) Outstanding

All the characters are outstanding, for a anime just about boxing we get so much great characterization and development before and even during the fights given to us in Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger. Whether it's Ippo himself or not I thought every fight challenger and champion was given good amount attention for me to care for both sides even if I may have hated one of the fighters they didn't feel like a uninteresting character, the only character during fights that you could debate that about is probably Ricardo Martinez since he barely showed any emotion and he barely got to see any background characterization about him but he served the purpose of being the representation of a character that is better than you simple as that which is realistic, sadly there's always someone better out there than you and that is was Ricardo represented so I can personally give him a pass for not showing too much character hopefully I see him in the future but I wouldn't be too mad if I didn't.

Enjoyment (10/10) Outstanding

My Enjoyment at the very start was great, I would say by the end I felt I was definitely satisfied with Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger and it definitely proved to me that my enjoyment for Hajime no Ippo wasn't just a one-hit-wonder.

Overall (9/10) Great
More Specifically (9.95/10) Great+

Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger has proved that Hajime no Ippo is still my favorite sports anime/manga that I've experience yet. And before going into this season I knew that the manga has literally over 1000 chapters and in my head I told myself "never will i ever read all of that" and now by the time I picked up the manga just to read it while watching the final Takamura vs Hawk fight I thought to myself "hmmm well after I finish Hajime no Ippo: Rising I can see myself reading it.. binge read!? probably not but I can see myself reading it in the future especailly if Mad House keeps playing around with us and not giving use another season for it I can definitely see myself in the distant future reading pass Rising. Anyway Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger is a fucking great season.

The story for Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 2nd Season was very good. It doesn't try to follow in the foot steps of previous Gundams and it tries it's own thing, other than the Gundam itself there's barely and resemblance to any alternate universe that have come before it. No lasers (except that one the mobile armor used), No beam weapons and no haro, sure there's a mask character and a char and even a garma clone. But it still does things that aren't seen before in a actual plot in a Gundam story and
the end it's quite original too in comparison to previous universe. I thought it was very good but I do indeed think it could have been better.

Art and Animation (9/10) Great
More Specifically (9.25/10) Great

The art and animation in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 2nd Season was great. When Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 2nd Season wanted to showcase come nice ass looking animation they can deliver some, the mobile armor fight alone is probably one of the best mech animated fights I've ever seen and I will never forget it, after that the last episode of this second season and the McGillis vs Gaelio's final fight were amazing. A nice handful of nicely non-cg mech fights and I appreciate and would love more of in the future of the mech genre as a whole not this cg stuff.

Sound (9/10) Great
More Specifically (9.75/10) Great+

Just like Season 1 Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 2nd Season brings the sound to high standards now I wasn't too found with the second ending outro but literally everything else sound related in this entire anime was outstanding.

Characters (8/10) Very Good

A lot of the characters get characterization and this anime doesn't give anyone plot armor. Anyone had the potential of dying it felt which is good. Now some characters did disappoint me because I was expecting more from them before the anime was over like I wish Orga ended up piloting his own Gundam alongside Mika, or that the new character of Season 2 Hash Midey was an interesting character which I thought would rise to top tier the way he was talking at the start of the anime but it basically felt like a waste of characterization, development and overall screen time by the time the anime ended I was quite disappointed he really didn't amount to a damn. Now Gaelio on the other hand surprised me especially doing what his orginial counter-part Garma could not and that was best his rival I enjoyed seeing his success. The main character Mikazuki was a beast until the end and I haven't seen a Kill em all Tomino style ending in a while.

Enjoyment (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.25/10) Good

My enjoyment for the series was good, I was indeed expecting a lot more enjoyment out of the series though to be quite honest. It does succeed in story building and characterization and top tier mech fights. But I felt certain points that make a Gundam anime super enjoyable to me were missing. For one I do feel like this tops Gundam Wing for the new Gundam series that'll talk more than battle and we all know at the end of the day all the talk is just build up to the pay off which is the battles and majority of the build up to the fights in the second season didn't feel worth the wait, it always left me wanting more, what I got was awesome but I felt it was always in small amazing doses which left me saying "It's over already? damnit" then the rest of the episode is dialogue and build up again. I know they were thinking from a story narrative standpoint but I do feel the balance between the two was not in snyc which hinder my enjoyment quite a lot, but I still end up staying caught up with it weekly which is still a good thing.

Overall (8/10) Very Good
More Specifically (8.45/10) Very Good

I will be honest Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 2nd Season is a very good installment to the Gundam Universes but I'm not going to lie I was expecting more from this series. I do not feel satisfied and it's current rating on this site is still higher than Gundam 00 which I feel is a far superior alternate Gundam Universe anime to this one. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans will be missed sure but not too much. If anything I would love to get a spin off prequel movie or something showcase the Calamity War or something to do with the Mobile Armors since they were not used alot in this series. Anyway Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 2nd Season is very good but even with the many many good things I can say about it I do feel Season 1 was better, Season 2 sure does a lot of things better but it has the burden of the conclusion of the overall series to live up to and I feel disappointed by how it ended which did not help in the enjoyment, character or story categories.

The Story for Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo is simple but great. It starts off real slice of life-ish but obviously by the name of the anime movie you get into the meat of the story and it left the mystery of why she can do it hidden for a good amount of time before explaining how she can do it and where it came from. I appreciate that it explained those type of things because I've seen too many stories that'll just have it in there just for the sake of it and have it occur for
plot convenience only, although all of them do it for that very reason but this didn't feel forced (Like Kimi No Nawa, Re: Zero and Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi).

Art and Animation (9/10) Great

The art style and animation were both great, although I don't think it was anything mind blowing it's great for a 2006 anime movie. Some scenes were flat out amazing and some were just meh, sometimes the movement of the characters did feel vaguely sloppy but it was no where near enough to complain about but it did leave enough on me not to give this section a 10 none the less it's still great.

Sound (8/10) Very Good

I watched this anime in english dub so the voice acting was very good on everyone. I felt all of the characters matched the voice actors they got for the role. The background music didn't have anything outstanding and didn't have anything that felt misplace or horrible so I'm neutral when it comes to that.

Characters (9/10) Great

The characters were great in this anime movie. All of the characters that got somewhat of a spot light, I felt somewhat connected to which is a good thing. A lot of series these days can't make me give a care about anyone but the main character a maybe like 3 others most of the time. All of them felt real and likable so if any of them were in any danger (which they were) I definitely wanted them to be okay which means you've done a good job at making me care about the current cast.

Enjoyment (10/10) Outstanding

For anime movies I'll definitely say this has to be one of my favorites I've watched in a long time. At first I wasn't really feeling it, I mean we know what the movie is called so up until she did it for the first time I was just waiting in anticipation for when it would occur. And yeah we can predict what the entire plot, girl gets ability, girl abuses ability, girl makes her life better or more convenient for her to live in, something bad happens, girl loses ability, girl gets ability back and somewhat fixes everything. Although I've said in the past I do not like a story that I can predict, what I do not like even more is the execution of said predictable plot and the explanation behind said story driven plot, if that's trash to me then my overall impressions and enjoyment can be tainted. The said story plot will leave a bad taste in my mouth and the three anime I named in the story section all fell guilty to that this flaw.

Overall (9/10) Great

Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo was an extremely enjoyable anime movie and if I made a top 10 favorite anime movies I know this would be somewhere in it. The execution of the plot is what I think the best thing about the movie and also the explanation behind the supernatural ability. Explanation behind time manipulation powers or any supernatural abilities in movies like this most of the time go missing and never explained and that drives me insane to no end, this didn't do that. Anyway this is a great movie and I'm glad I took the time to watch it because time waits for no one!

Now I see a nice handful of people that thought the story was complete trash. But I personally don't think so, did it start off generic? yeah I felt so, but I don't think that's a bad thing. But I personally can't fully compliment something I've seen too many of times, now the execution behind said generic story plot is the best I've seen so far I'll give it that but them it fell apart soon after. And by generic story plot I've seen too many times I'm talking about the body-switch
story plot. I've personally seen this too many times and when I figured out during the movie that this is where the plot was going you can basically predict everything that's going to happen and then there's the half way point which is suppose to be the biggest plot twist for the movie. This is the part of the movie that's suppose to hook you and you know what I'm talking about. Now I did get far more interested than I did before that scene happened as I should, some people where completely turned off by I but I wasn't. That plot twist happened and I personally didn't see it coming nor did I doubt majority of the people who watched it. After the story took that different path you thought it was going to take before the plot twist, you still know exactly how the story is going to play it. It's kind of like it went from one predictable story plot did one big plot twist that you didn't see coming "sure bravo" then goes straight into another different but predictable story plot and from that point one if you took the least bit of effort to try and figure out how this is going to play out then you most likely will get it right. Now is there something wrong with being predictable? In my opinion not necessarily but it is arguable if you want to consider something predictable as "not a con". I personally feel if I hand to choose whether if it's a con or a pro with no gray area, I would say it's a con. I personally don't like to know what's going to happen in my stories that I'm following if it's the first time I'm watching or reading them and other than that one plot twist, I was able to see how this would played out. Another thing that bothers me about the actual body switch plot that majority of the stories that have this plot never explain how this came to be and for the sake of plot convenience rules apply according to maximum enjoyment over trying to make any common sense or rules in the universe that has been presented. It didn't sit well with me in Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi did is also and it doesn't sit well with me here also. So that's all I'll say about the story. Do I think it's bad? nah but do I think it's a masterpiece? fuck no.. but it like I'll give it some credit because it the actual plot twist was something I've never seen before but the explanation was non-existent like I said before also so it's kind of like a double edge sword for me.

Art and Animation (9/10) Great

I thought the art style was very good I would give that an 8/10 the animation on the other had was outstanding so I'll give that a 10/10 so if you average those two out you'll get yourself what I think of this section, vibrant colors and nice scenes which were probably the best thing this movie had to offer pretty colors.

Sound (7/10) Good

The sound of this anime movie was good... that's it... nothing more to be said.. the outro fit and so did the intro..

Characters (6/10) Fine
More Specifically (6.75/10) Fine+

It's funny as I'm writing this review I can't remember the names of the main characters seeing as that was one of the pushing plots in this fucking anime. and the shit literally translates to Your Name LOL. Ahh yes uhh.. Mitsuha and Taki that's their names.. every other character honestly isn't worth talking. But before I talk about the two main characters it would have been cool seeing as that Mitsuha's grandmother went thru the same kind of switch her grand daughter went thru I, it would have been cool if we figured out her mom died in some way related to her body switch but oh well. Anyway, Taki the Main Male Character was nothing really special just a rash kid that ends up falling for Mitsuha for no apparent reason, there's nothing really more to say about this character. Mitsuha on the other hand was a little more interesting but not by too much, I didn't understand why she felt the need to try and go on a date with Okudera and she was legit excited and disappointed that she didn't get to go on a date with another girl in a guys body, one could say "oh she's just trying to do Taki a favor because she saw that his phone had multiple pictures of her" but then I would say "well like I said before the fact that she does admit that she felt disappointed that she could go on the date herself WITH ANOTHER GIRL MIND YOU" just felt that it was more than helping out Taki, like what if she did go on that date and it got to a kiss and the end of the date? then what? would she have kissed her? It just felt like she was doing it for a favor at first but then it turned into something more personal. Anyway beyond that I personally don't see anything else to talk about when it comes to Mitsuha, I say the characters were fine but I couldn't call them good, more like boring generic and confusing than good.

Enjoyment (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.75/10) Good+

Even with all of the issues I've stated above I still fairly enjoyed myself with this one. I was able to complete it in one sitting which when it comes to movies and I track record it usually takes two sittings at the least so the fact that it was able to keep my attention for an hour+ I say is a very good thing if anything else. I can't give this any high than an 7.75/10 because of the confusion on how the supernatural rules came to be and the fact that the main character was oblivious for so long how what time line he was in not even checking the date and realizing that we are not in the same timeline let alone same dimension? No.. 7.75 is as high as my enjoyment can take me for this section and I'm being generous with it.

Overall (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.65/10) Good+

This movie was a good movie for people that like slice of life and stories in the realm of freaky friday, or body switchers should I say would get a kick out of this one, it was the plot twist in the middle that kept me going to see how it was going to end. Now I probably would have rated this higher if it went for an end that I didn't see coming or at least go for an ending that wasn't so should I say "lazy, easy and safe"? Nothing wrong with safe, sure but you don't get any extra points by me with such a lazy ending, this is 2016 with a ton of inspirational and good story telling to pull from. Mediocre endings have been really urking me lately and it doesn't help that this fell into that point was unsatisfactory. Yeah I know this is fiction but at the end of the day you have to put some attempt to make sense of the rules of the fictional world you have created Kimi No Nawa gave no fucks when it came to explaining what the supernatural rules to the alternate timeline/dimension body switching crap it introduced. They showed us patterns on how it works then by the 80% point it stopped giving a fuck for the sake of making the audience feel for the plot in an emotional way. I can't get down with such a sloppy conclusion just to make sure the the to main characters end up with each other. Far too many questions, it seem like the writers just want you to stop thinking and just embrace your simp like emotions, cry like a bitch at how debatably touching these scenes are and give me a 10/10 because I made you cry. No.. you are a good movie but you are not a very good movie in my eyes Kimi No Nawa you have far too many flaws that i can't let you ride out with.

The story for Tokyo Ghoul is quite outstanding especially compared to it's anime counterpart. I'm glad I took the time to sit down and read this the mangaka behind this knows how to latch a outstanding story together. Although at some points it can get a bit overwhelming with the introduction of characters it's not too hard to follow. The struggles and undertone messages that this manga brings to the table is definitely within the same realm as another series I adore called Parasyte and after reading this I do think this is better than Parasyte, it takes the overall plot
that it shares with Parasyte and beats it at it in my opinion not by a long shot but I definitely think it's better.

Art (9/10) Great+
More Specifically (9.50/10)

The art at the start of this manga I felt was honestly just ok, it quite mediocre in some panels but around the 20th chapter and beyond you can tell the mangaka got batter at drawing his characters and especially his background environments. His art eventually becomes a treat to view especially on key panels he really puts time into the key panels and that's when his art style is at it's absolute best. But most of the time it's great, the only thing that bothered me just a big about his overall art style is just there was just a tad bit too much line shading across literally almost everything he draw it got just a tad bit annoying to me, it's what eventually turned me off with Shingeki No Kyojin's art style far too much line shading it makes it look like a rough draft of a picture instead of a finished product, but that's just my opinion it didn't ruin the overall art for me just something that has urked about art style not just in tokyo ghoul but across other manga nonetheless like i said it's still great.

Characters (9/10) Great
More Specifically (9.75/10) Great+

The characters in Tokyo Ghoul are great the character development of the main character was amazing. Although a lot of characters around the half way point were introduced and it felt overwhelming to keep up with all the characters the mangaka was introducing at once it messed with the flow a bit. But the characters that were focused on like where great and I also like the focus on the Dove characters too because it made me understand and connect with characters like Amon, Mado and his daughter and Juzo also, so when both sides clash I was more invested in the battle. Like I said the only thing that bugged me where large amount of side characters that hopefully get fleshed out in the sequel Re: but who knows some fights they participated in I didn't care for and got lost for half a chapter trying to figure out who I'm following right now but it didn't happen often but enough for me to point out.

Enjoyment (9/10) Great
More Specifically (9.75/10) Great+

My enjoyment for majority of the manga was great. It started off entertaining and the slice of life parts were ok i didn't really care for those chapters of Ken and Hinami going to get coffee, or the chapters where Amon and Akira are discuss what the plans for dove are next even though i understand why those chapters exist it was for characterization but I'm not going to lie I was getting a bit bored as this might last for 3 chapters or so. But other than that like i said everything was really entertaining especially majority of every conflict that happened in this manga quite top notch fight scenes and angles the mangaka drew all the scenes at and for that it keeps it at a high 9 for me.

Overall (9/10) Great
More Specifically (9.75/10) Great+

Tokyo Ghoul is a great manga I knew I was going to like it more than the anime but not this much. It's definitely one of the best manga's I've read in quite a while and as of this review has broke into my top 10 favorite manga. Eager to see where the sequel Re: takes this great manga as I've been hearing good things about it also.